Matt's review
Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5) by Stephen King
This book is looooooooooong. It's saying something whenever you tell a friend, "Yeah, I'm only like 700 pages into this book." Compared to the awesome fast read that was the Wizard and Glass, this book, Wolves of the Calla plods and plods along like a motorboat with a trolling motor. There are some really great moments in this book, but they're so spaced out that I found myself itching to skip entire sections to get to the good stuff. Seeing how it took Stephen King 900 pages to complete this story, I feel like some of his literary indulgences got the best of him. And I can't tell you how many times I wanted to scream "ENOUGH OF 19 ALREADY! I KNOW! I KNOW!" It isn't brow-beating to the level of say...Dan Brown or, like, Robin Williams or something, but it is frustratingly close. Wolves of the Calla seems to be King attempting to delay the chase to the Tower because he lost the directions to it along the way. Then, after 750 pages of planning, smoking cigar...more
